Envira Gallery – Image Photo Gallery, Albums, Video Gallery, Slideshows & More vs Gallery by Visual Portfolio

The Best Photo Gallery Plugin for Beautiful Image Galleries We believe creating a photo gallery should be simple! Envira Gallery makes it easy to create beautiful, responsive image galleries that look great on any device. Drag, drop, publish — and your photo gallery is live in minutes with zero coding required. More importantly, over 150,000 website owners choose Envira Gallery because it is the fastest loading gallery plugin on the market. Your image gallery will never slow down your site. Whether you need a portfolio gallery, a client proofing gallery, or a video gallery for your brand – Envira Gallery does it all. Envira Gallery Pro This plugin is the lite version of Envira Gallery Pro, which comes with albums, video galleries, watermarking, WooCommerce integration, client proofing, social sharing, and tons more. Click here to purchase the best premium photo gallery plugin now! See what WordPress developer Chris Lema has to say about Envira Gallery: I’ve suspended flavor-of-the-week gallery plugins in favor of Envira Gallery. It’s developer-friendly — a photo gallery solution that works great and won’t slow down your site. Chris Lema – WordPress Developer & Blogger Drag & Drop Gallery Builder Create a stunning image gallery in minutes, not hours. Our drag & drop gallery builder lets you upload photos, reorder images, and publish with just a few clicks. No coding. No confusing settings. Just drag, drop, and your photo gallery is live. Envira Gallery works perfectly with the Block Editor, Classic Editor, and shortcodes. Embed your image gallery on any page or post instantly. Lightning-Fast Photo Gallery Performance Speed matters. A slow gallery plugin will hurt your search rankings and frustrate your visitors. That’s why Envira Gallery is built for speed from the ground up. Testing by WPBeginner confirmed Envira Gallery loads faster than any other photo gallery plugin. Your image gallery will load fast on desktop, tablet, and mobile. Responsive Lightbox Display Every photo gallery includes a built-in responsive lightbox that works beautifully on all devices. Visitors browse images in a gorgeous fullscreen overlay without leaving the page. The lightbox includes: Multiple lightbox themes to match your site’s design Touch and swipe support for mobile galleries Keyboard navigation for desktop browsing Fullscreen mode for immersive gallery viewing Zoom capability for full-resolution images Slideshow autoplay with manual controls Photo Albums to Organize Your Galleries Got a lot of images? Use albums to group your photo galleries into organized collections. Choose cover photos for each album and let visitors browse your galleries their way. Albums are perfect for: Wedding and event photographers with multiple shoots Real estate agents with property photo galleries Travel bloggers organizing galleries by destination Businesses showcasing products by category Schools organizing event photo galleries by year Video Gallery Support Go beyond photos. With the Video Gallery addon, embed videos from YouTube, Vimeo, Wistia, DailyMotion, Twitch, and self-hosted video directly in your gallery. Mix photos and videos in the same gallery, or create dedicated video galleries. Every video plays inside the same beautiful lightbox your visitors already love. Sell Your Photos with WooCommerce Turn your photo gallery into a revenue stream. The WooCommerce integration lets you sell prints, digital downloads, and licensed images directly from your image gallery. Visitors browse your gallery, click a photo they love, and purchase — all without leaving your site. Protect Your Images Your photos deserve protection. Envira Gallery gives you the tools to keep your gallery images safe: [Watermarking] — Add text or image watermarks to protect gallery photos (originals are preserved) Right-click protection — Prevent visitors from downloading your images Password protection — Restrict gallery access to authorized users only Gallery permissions — Control who can view each photo gallery by user role Image licensing — Display Creative Commons and custom license info to protect your work Client Proofing for Photographers Running a photography business? The client proofing addon streamlines your workflow. Clients browse their photo gallery, select favorites, add feedback, and submit — all from your site. No more emailing zip files back and forth. Your gallery becomes a professional client experience. Beautiful Gallery Layouts Every photo gallery deserves the right layout. Envira Gallery includes: Masonry — Pinterest-style image gallery layout Grid — Clean, uniform photo gallery grid Justified — Edge-to-edge image gallery rows Square — Uniform square thumbnails Mosaic — Dynamic, eye-catching gallery pattern Blogroll — Full-width image gallery layout for blogs Social Sharing & Engagement Help your gallery go viral. The social sharing addon lets visitors share photos to Facebook, Twitter/X, Pinterest, LinkedIn, WhatsApp, and email. Add a Pinterest “Pin It” button to every image in your gallery for maximum exposure. SEO-Friendly Photo Gallery Envira Gallery is built to help your image gallery rank. Every gallery includes: Deeplinking — SEO-friendly URLs for individual gallery images EXIF metadata display — Camera model, aperture, shutter speed with schema markup Alt text and caption support — Properly structured image gallery data Lazy loading — Faster initial page loads for better Core Web Vitals Image compression — Reduce file sizes without losing quality Adobe Lightroom Integration Professional photographers love our Lightroom addon. Create and sync image galleries directly from your Lightroom collections. Edit in Lightroom, and your photo gallery updates automatically. Full Envira Gallery Feature List Drag & drop gallery builder — Create a photo gallery in minutes without code 100% responsive and mobile-friendly image galleries Built-in responsive lightbox with fullscreen mode Albums — Organize galleries into collections with cover photos Video galleries — YouTube, Vimeo, Wistia, self-hosted video support Slideshow — Autoplay gallery with manual controls Social sharing— Share gallery images to Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest Watermarking — Protect photo gallery images with watermarks WooCommerce /eCommerce Galleries — Sell photos directly from your image gallery Client proofing — Photography business client workflow Deeplinking — SEO-friendly individual image gallery URLs Paginatio — Split large galleries across pages Image tagging — Filterable photo gallery with tag-based navigation Password protection — Restrict gallery access EXIF data display — Show camera details with schema markup Fullscreen mode — Immersive gallery viewing experience Image compression — Optimize gallery performance to load fast on every device Gallery animations — Beautiful transition effects Gallery themes — Professionally designed gallery templates Standalone galleries — Galleries with unique, shareable URLs Downloads — Allow visitors to download gallery images Printing — Add print buttons to gallery images Image / Gallery commenting — Let visitors comment on gallery photos Gallery Zoom — Lightbox zoom for full-resolution viewing Scheduled galleries — Time-based gallery visibility Lazy loading — Faster page loads for large image galleries Block Editor (Gutenberg) support Shortcode embed support Custom CSS support Page Builder Integrations Elementor Gallery— Native image gallery addon for Elementor Beaver Builder Gallery — Native photo gallery addon for Beaver Builder Divi Gallery — Full gallery compatibility Block Editor — Dedicated and easy to use gallery block Import & Migration Adobe Lightroom — Sync image galleries with Lightroom collections Instagram importer — Import Instagram photos into your gallery automatically Dropbox importer — Import photos from Dropbox Zip file importer — Build galleries from zip files NextGEN / Imagely importer — Migrate from NextGEN Gallery After reading this feature list, you can see why over 150,000 websites trust Envira Gallery as their go-to photo gallery plugin. Give Envira Gallery a try. Credits This plugin is created by Syed Balkhi and the Envira Gallery Team. Branding Guidelines Envira Gallery® is a registered trademark of Envira Gallery LLC. When writing about the photo gallery plugin by Envira Gallery, please use the full name “Envira Gallery.” Envira Gallery (correct) Envira gallery (incorrect) envira gallery (incorrect) Envira (incorrect)

Photo gallery and portfolio plugin for WordPress ★★★★★ Visual Portfolio is a WordPress gallery plugin built around gallery and portfolio blocks. Use it for photo galleries, image galleries, video galleries, and albums. Pick masonry, justified, tiles, grid, slider, or carousel layouts. See Live Demo | Documentation | GitHub Keep it simple with a basic image gallery, or go further with nested galleries, filterable portfolio grids, post grids, and taxonomy grids. Add images, choose a layout, then tweak skins and the lightbox. You do not need to write code. 🏆 Visual Gallery Builder Build gallery and portfolio blocks without coding. Customize layouts visually with live preview in the editor. Supported layouts: Masonry, Justified, Tiles, Grid, Slider, and Carousel. You get skins and the usual gallery controls in one place. 🚀 Optimized to be Fast as Native Despite the rich functionality, the Visual Portfolio is optimized as much as possible, to be fast and lightweight. Due to the modular code structure, all scripts and styles are loaded only when they are needed for the current page that displays your gallery. So, your pages will never load unused features. Pictures are not loaded in the main thread due to lazy loading. Moreover, our plugin is compatible with third-party WebP providers and image optimization plugins. Smart adaptive image sizes fully supported in any gallery, created with Visual Portfolio plugin. 📱 Layouts Our gallery plugin shipped with popular layouts such as Masonry and Justified (Flickr). Every feature optimized and works seamlessly with all of these layouts, you just need to set up and go with no headache. See it in action: Masonry Gallery Justified (Flickr) Gallery Tiles Gallery Grid Gallery Slider Gallery (Fade, Carousel, Coverflow) 🎨 Prebuilt Skins Showcase your projects and gallery images with clean and beautiful skins. See it in action: Classic Fade Emerge Fly Caption Move ⚙️ Easy to Customize The gallery block with live preview includes a lot of design settings that are point-and-click, no coding knowledge required. If you’re a bit more adventurous, the custom CSS module and PHP filters are set up to be easily used by developers. 📁 Portfolio Post Type Optional custom post type portfolio will ensure all your portfolios to keep in a single post type. In this way, you can distinguish your portfolios from other post types. Taxonomies are used to categorize your portfolio types, it will help you to group and sort your portfolios. Moreover, you can use these portfolios as a source for your showcase gallery using Visual Portfolio block. Customize and rename Portfolio archive templates using the gallery block and page builders: https://www.visualportfolio.com/docs/portfolio-archive/ In case you want to use Visual Portfolio plugin for photo gallery only you can disable custom post type registration. 💎 Posts Query Builder Fine-tune the source of your galleries. Display posts, portfolios, taxonomies, and any other post types, filter by taxonomies, author, and date ranges, include or exclude specific posts, and build post grids or taxonomy grids from the same workflow. 🖼️ Photo Galleries Create galleries from image sets right inside the gallery block: drop your images in and the gallery is ready. You can create unlimited image galleries with different styles, build album galleries with nested galleries in Pro, and combine images with video items for richer visual storytelling. ⚡ Powerful Lightbox Visual Portfolio uses only modern solutions, and lightboxes are not an exception. High performance, mobile optimization, retina-ready, and a wide range of features available in Fancybox and PhotoSwipe plugins, that you can choose for your gallery lightboxes. Mobile Optimized Looks great on every device. Swipe to navigate, spread/pinch to zoom in/out supported on touch devices. GPU Accelerated Hardware accelerated animations for better performance and seamless user experience. Smart Loading Gallery images are responsive and loaded progressively using lazy loading on demand. Social Sharing You can allow users to share photos on Facebook, X, and Pinterest with social sharing buttons. 📹 Video and 🎵 Audio Support Visual Portfolio plugin allows you to work with audios and videos within a single gallery. You can paste a supported video or audio URL and it will work automatically in the popup gallery. In Pro, you can also add dedicated video items directly to image galleries and post grids, including autoplay on open or playback on hover. The full list with supported vendors see below. Supported Video Vendors: Youtube Vimeo IGTV (Instagram) TikTok Twitch Facebook Video DailyMotion Wistia VideoPress TED Rutube Metacafe Coub Self Hosted Video Supported Audio Vendors: Spotify SoundCloud Mixcloud Beatport Self Hosted Audio 📈 SEO-Friendly Visual Portfolio plugin is built keeping SEO and performance in mind by defining proper structure and tags. Furthermore, due to optimization, it is lightweight and fast when it comes to page load. In addition our plugin add images in the sitemap for All In One SEO, Rank Math, and Yoast SEO plugins 🏳️ Multilingual & Translation Ready Visual Portfolio adds a new layer of compatibility for WPML. All blocks are compatible with it and ready for translation. https://www.visualportfolio.com/docs/multilingual/ 🛠 Built For Developers Visual Portfolio gives you a wide range of filters and actions to customize every part of your gallery. Also, it allows you to overwrite templates and change it in the theme directory. Moreover, you can customize separate portfolio lists using custom CSS and CSS Variables. 🔥 Visual Portfolio Pro The Visual Portfolio plugin is also available in a professional version which includes more features and enhanced performance! Learn more about Visual Portfolio Pro In order to maintain the free version of the plugin on an ongoing basis, and to provide quick and effective support for free, we offer a Pro version of the plugin. The Pro version allows you to: Video Items in Galleries and Post Grids Add video items directly into image galleries and post grids, with autoplay on open or play on hover. Gallery Format and Albums Display nested galleries and album-style content in image galleries, posts, and taxonomy grids. Taxonomies as Gallery Source Build galleries directly from taxonomy terms, not only from posts or images. Advanced Skin Settings Image Filters and Blend Mode – apply Instagram-like filters on images for Normal and Hover states Transformations – control the image transformation and border radius for Normal and Hover states Typography – control every text part of gallery captions and overlays Dimensions – controls paddings, margins and border radius of captions and overlays Stylish Interaction Effects Hover Tilt Effect Custom Hover Image – useful for animated GIFs Caption Move Skin Social Feeds Automatically fetch posts from your social networks to display in gallery on your site. Instagram Youtube Vimeo Unsplash X Flickr Dribbble Twitch RSS VK (Vkontakte) Theft Protection Watermarks – add your logo on top of your images to make them harder to steal Password Form – add a password to gallery blocks and send it to your clients Age Gate – Protect visitors from viewing adult content Photos Proofing Communicate with your clients in a modern way: Create Proofing Gallery – Easily create a gallery with photos, as you did before. Change styling, layout, etc. if you want. Send to a Client – Send photos collection to your client for proofing. The client will be able to leave comments on individual photos and communicate with you. Get Approval – Once the client approves the selection, you will be able to see the selected photos and copy filenames for post-production. Advanced Click Actions Manually configure how to open specific item types and filter clicking on title or on image. Responsive Breakpoints Settings Manually control the screen sizes, which used by the automatic responsive function to adapt your gallery layouts. AJAX Improvements Requests properly cached and links preloaded before you click. Advanced Query Settings Filter by Author, Date Range, Ignore Sticky Posts, exclude posts without Featured Image, and much more… Albums, Gallery Format, and Taxonomy Grids Build nested gallery structures, output gallery format content, and create visual taxonomy grids from the same workflow. See the Taxonomies demo. Quick View for Posts and Pages Display posts and pages in popup iframe, not only image and video galleries. It’s like works preview in Dribbble and Behance, but on your own site. Popup Gallery Deep Linking Makes URL automatically change when you open popup and you can easily link to a specific popup image. White Label Possibility to use your brand name and logo instead of our “Visual Portfolio”. Find much more portfolio and gallery features of Visual Portfolio Pro today! 🌟 More Features Lightboxes for Standard WordPress Images Image lightbox available for Visual Portfolio galleries as well as for standard WordPress images and galleries in your content. AJAX Loading and Pagination Every dynamic part of the Visual Portfolio plugin is using AJAX to update the gallery content in live mode. Organized galleries and portfolio lists will make your website look more professional, easy to navigate and result in a better user experience. We prepared 3 types of paginations for you: Infinite Scroll Load More button Paged pagination Filter Filter your gallery and portfolio by taxonomies (mostly categories and tags). Let users select a category and see the relevant items. Sort gallery items by date and title Users may sort gallery items by date and title. GIFs Support Our plugin automatically displays the animated GIFs in photo galleries. Also, you can show the animated GIFs on mouseover with the Pro plugin. Items Gutters Manually adjust the spacing between gallery images and projects. Images Lazy Loading Images lazy loading boost your page loading speed. You don’t need to worry about it, just use your beautiful images in the gallery, Visual Portfolio will do all the work for you. Images Aspect Ratio All built-in gallery layouts support custom image aspect ratio. You don’t need to crop the image manually. Images Focal Point Sometimes it is very important to specify the focal point so that the custom aspect ratio does not cut off important parts of the photos. For example, people’s faces on the portrait photos. Custom Links for Gallery Images By default, gallery images will contain the links to original images. You can manually set the custom links, for example, to a website or Youtube video. RTL Support Visual Portfolio natively supports RTL languages, proper styles loaded automatically, without user interaction. Elementor and WPBakery Page Builder support There is a helpful widget for Elementor and shortcode for WPBakery Page Builder, which will let you select one of the available Saved Layouts and output it. Responsive and Mobile Ready Visual Portfolio and Galleries are completely responsive and mobile ready – layouts automagically transforms to display perfectly on your screen size. Custom CSS Deeply customize the look of your gallery using custom CSS and CSS Variables. … And Much More All available features you can find on the plugin’s site and documentation.